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author | Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-04-13 02:02:12 -0400 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2017-04-13 09:54:04 -0400 |
commit | 739cf305512cb852e852099f9e12dd66bf4df076 (patch) | |
tree | 12ccf5b3d0659abc55dd0b80b444fc6d9a6d37ba | |
parent | db49a71798a38f3ddf3f3462703328dca39b1ac7 (diff) |
perf trace: Add usage of --no-syscalls in man page
perf trace supports --no-syscalls option but it's not listed in the man
page. (Though, I see an example using --no-syscalls in EXAMPLES
section.)
Committer note:
The --no-syscalls option tells 'perf trace' not to automagically ask for
raw_syscalls:sys_{enter,exit} to then format it in a strace like way.
This become more used as 'perf trace' got support for arbitrary events,
such as tracepoints, so more and more we use:
# perf trace --no-syscalls -e nmi:*
0.000 nmi:nmi_handler:perf_event_nmi_handler() delta_ns: 36649 handled: 1)
0.019 nmi:nmi_handler:nmi_cpu_backtrace_handler() delta_ns: 2907 handled: 0)
0.676 nmi:nmi_handler:perf_event_nmi_handler() delta_ns: 9401 handled: 1)
0.680 nmi:nmi_handler:nmi_cpu_backtrace_handler() delta_ns: 288 handled: 0)
0.701 nmi:nmi_handler:perf_event_nmi_handler() delta_ns: 4977 handled: 1)
0.703 nmi:nmi_handler:nmi_cpu_backtrace_handler() delta_ns: 67 handled: 0)
0.736 nmi:nmi_handler:perf_event_nmi_handler() delta_ns: 8549 handled: 1)
^C#
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492063332-5745-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt index afd728672b6f..c1e3288a2dfb 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | |||
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs. | |||
123 | major or all pagefaults. Default value is maj. | 123 | major or all pagefaults. Default value is maj. |
124 | 124 | ||
125 | --syscalls:: | 125 | --syscalls:: |
126 | Trace system calls. This options is enabled by default. | 126 | Trace system calls. This options is enabled by default, disable with |
127 | --no-syscalls. | ||
127 | 128 | ||
128 | --call-graph [mode,type,min[,limit],order[,key][,branch]]:: | 129 | --call-graph [mode,type,min[,limit],order[,key][,branch]]:: |
129 | Setup and enable call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording. | 130 | Setup and enable call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording. |